#519 - Creed, Crimea, Crime...and a City of Baby Newts
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* Below the Mendoza Line
* Tommy the HIV+ Rocky boxer
* Stallone’s Bergman period
* Does Tom Friedman still have a job? And if so, why?
* The hundreds of forgotten anti-Bush books
* An especially bad Munich analogy
* NATO, NATO, NATO
* Purely defensive? Well…
* Perhaps it made sense at the time…
* The Olympic graveyard
* A test for the post-war European left
* Won’t somebody just *do something*
* In praise of Florent Ahmed Groberg
* The politics of DC crime
* A city of Haley Barbours
* Writing shirtlessly: A fantastically awful AP article on DC
* Some notes on Ken Burns
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